<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 at 12:33 Terry Reedy <<a href="mailto:tjreedy@udel.edu">tjreedy@udel.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2/8/2017 2:38 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
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> I know that different people have different expectation on GitHub. I<br class="gmail_msg">
> would like to take the opportunity of migrating to Git to use the<br class="gmail_msg">
> "author" and "committer" fields. If the author is set to the real<br class="gmail_msg">
> author, the one who proposed the change on the bug tracker or someone<br class="gmail_msg">
> else, we will be able to compute statistics on most active<br class="gmail_msg">
> contributors to more easily detect them and promote them to core<br class="gmail_msg">
> developers.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> What do you think?<br class="gmail_msg">
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Many patches have multiple authors. Does the 'author' field allow that?<br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
   Often, the committer adds missing chunks or rewrites the work with<br class="gmail_msg">
various degrees of editing.  Sometimes a read a patch for the idea and<br class="gmail_msg">
then start fresh with the actual code.  An acknowledgement in the news<br class="gmail_msg">
entry can be written different ways to reflect the situation.<br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yep, I assume the Misc/NEWS entry, commit log, and Misc/ACKS all provide opportunities to overcome the shortcoming of a single author attribution.</div><div><br></div><div>-Brett</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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